Majority of members of Persian Language and Literature Academy in Iran are against President Hassan Rouhani`s program on teaching ethnic groups` mother tongue in the schools, Iran's Mehr news agency ...

The State Department has appointed a Persian-language spokesperson for the first time, and he could appear on Iran’s state-owned media. The move seems to be part of an increased effort by the Obama ...

Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very ...

I have the dubious distinction of having always lived in a country whose language I did not know well enough. In the winter of 1954, at the age of seven, I went with my parents to England, where I was ...

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted a culture and language day on Tuesday to commemorate the introduction of a newPersian studies concentration this fall that will be housed ...

At 11:15 on a recent Saturday morning at the Greek Orthodox Church in Brookville, school is -- or was -- in session. Gazle Dunphy, 9, and her friends burst out of classrooms in the church's basement, ...